Time is running out for early-stage female business entrepreneurs in rural areas to apply for the fifth annual Acorns business support initiative.

The Jack and Jill Foundation help Tracy with 50 hours nursing a month to give her a little break from the round-the-clock care that Willow needs.

I simply had to write to your paper to congratulate the cash desk staff on the first floor in Marks and Spencer in Merchant’s Quay, Cork.

Successful Dragons Den contestant Sarah Nic Lochlainn of Aruna Sauces is among the nominees for this year’s Women Mean Business awards.

Taking Sides by Brian Gallagher (O’Brien Press; €7.99) is a very apt title as the story is set in the early twenties when the newly independent Ireland rushed headlong into a bloody and divisive civil war.